Surely worth it’s own thread?
Elon Musk | Owner of X and right wing man-child
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Surely worth it’s own thread?
I can see this going horribly wrong for him if he offends too much of the twitter crowd.
Equally he might be world president in 10 years I guess.
Equally he might be world president in 10 years I guess.
Enjoyed you, Twitter.
Doesn't come across like someone who gives a single feck tbhI can see this going horribly wrong for him if he offends too much of the twitter crowd.
Equally he might be world president in 10 years I guess.
Bezos has Washington Post and Musk has Twitter. Happy days.
Twitter will likely go downhill now if he implements what he sees as ‘free speech’. Racists, bigots, etc.. will all be allowed to ‘express their opinion’.
It’s always been insane having a tool that can use sophisticated algorithms to influence the mind of millions under private ownership. But having it owned by such an obvious bell end really brings home the madness. We’re so screwed.
If its anything like tesla you will have a choice of 4 opinions it will take a year to post and you will be charged a yet to be confirmed amount when it does
I have the exact opposite view of him, actually. He cares, he just cares about impressing a particular segment of the online world (edgy incels).
Musk? Quite the opposite, he comes across as somebody who’s incredibly insecure and desperate for approval.
He’s probably going to remove the ban on Trump, allow a bucketload of racist shit to be posted in the interest of freedom of speech and preside over Twitter as a company tanking as the market that would fill the gaps not seeing the necessity of moving over from Facebook.
Killing twitter could be his greatest achievement yet.
Elon, if you're reading this, congratulations.
All the tumblr refugees who made twitter home will now surely be driven out.
Where do they go now?
Where do they go now?
Welcome to bizarro world
I hope his ownership leads to the fall of twitter. One of the worst websites out there. Worse than facebook in my opinion because at least there is no character limit on facebook. Twitter started with good intentions but it's led to such dumbing down, ignorance and organised hate thriving.
How relevant will Twitter be if Musk turns it into Parler 2.0?
While it's already got an established base of users I could see it becoming increasingly irrelevant to people left of Mussolini and the young.
It's happened to Facebook but Facebook is a far bigger company so they can off set an exodus through their other ventures like Instagram. Twitter to my mind doesn't have much else since they shut down Vine.
If he turns it into a magapalooza then people will leave and start their own new platform. And unlike when right wingers attempted to start their own twitter clones, the new platform would likely be successful since there is already a degree of twitter fatigue to where one bad thing happening to Twitter would considerably reduce interest (much as Facebook and its various problems).
What happened with the poison pills etc 
What happened with the poison pills etc
They probably realized they couldn't stop Musk in either scenario and are attempting to best position themselves for life under his rule.
It's amazing how influential these superbillionaires are. They can get anything they want.
They can pretty much buy whatever they want, except of course the respect of the public.
Which is the one thing Musk at least craves most.
I can see Elon doing something like integrating Twitter into Tesla iPads, just as he has video games. The blowback to allowing the nutty right wingers back on may be a bit too much for him given the equities he has at play with Tesla and SpaceX (hard to predict what will happen here).
So Elon Musk buys Twitter.
Elon Musk lifts Trump’s suspension on Twitter and let’s him say whatever he wants without fact check or censure.
Trump gets back into power.
Elon gets…
Elon Musk lifts Trump’s suspension on Twitter and let’s him say whatever he wants without fact check or censure.
Trump gets back into power.
Elon gets…
i think people are overestimating the effect of being able to see trump tweeting, on electoral outcomes.
he's been issuing fairly regular, tweet-sized press releases for more than a year now.
he's been issuing fairly regular, tweet-sized press releases for more than a year now.
Everything media is owned by like 5 companies anyways. Not gonna change a whole lot.
Are we not all looking forward to more groundbreaking content like this?
Elon Musk is a fragile and narcissistic troll. Twitter will get worse if he buys it.
Elon Musk is a fragile and narcissistic troll. Twitter will get worse if he buys it.
I've seen so much racism, bigotry and targeted harassment go unpunished on Twitter that I'm not sure how much is going to change. Theoretically, "the algorithm" is supposed to flag and sanction offending tweets, but I've seen virulent racists with posts full of racist, homophobic, transphobic etc. slurs going back years just keep on posting, so clearly it isn't doing much. Meanwhile, I got a 12-hour suspension for telling some racist shithead to go play in traffic (encouraging self-harm, apparently) and numerous other 12-hour suspensions for using too many swears (I'm from Northern Norway, we swear a lot, it's our thing.)
That would be you thinking that there isn't much that gets filtered out even though there is plenty
I don't get why so many people hate Twitter. It's one of the best sites out there. So much going on, loads of funny stuff and 'pigeon in the assembly hall' moments. It's a great way to keep up with current events, football, music, film, etc..
Yes it has bottom feeders on it but what social website doesn't.
Yes it has bottom feeders on it but what social website doesn't.
If this goes through twitter's just going to become a bigger version of truth social (not that it isn't already).
I think you’re underestimating his ability to control the political discourse.
For whatever reason, what he says on Twitter then drives the topic of conversation on every news network.
I don't hate it, which is exactly why i do not want Musk to buy it and potentially make it worse.